Necessary Secrets

Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, will discuss his new book, Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, on Sept. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, room 121.  The lecture is sponsored by Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.
Schoenfeld has published numerous articles and reviews in leading newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, the Atlantic, the National Interest,and the New Republic. He has also appeared as a guest commentator on major broadcast and cable television networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and abroad on NHK (Japan) and CBC (Canada).
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Fire in the Heart

Harvard Professor Mark Warren, author of Fire in the Heart, a new book that uncovers the process by which some white Americans become activists for racial justice, will speak on  Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Campion Hall, room 139. The Lynch School of Education has sponsored his visit.
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Literary Lives

Irish writers are the subject of the exhibition that opened this weekend at the McMullen Musuem of Art. “Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Art Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland” captures the visages of Irish writers by Irish artists in painting, sculpture and photography. Writers included are: William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O’Connor and Seamus Heaney, among others. The exhibition is on display until December 5.
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